Sentences with phrase «films at the festival whose»

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The question of whose disobedience, and what kind of disobedience it is, are at the heart of this absorbing and moving love story from Chilean director Sebastián Lelio, his English language debut, following very quickly on the heels of his film A Fantastic Woman which has been a festival - circuit hit this year.

Director Bio Matt Harlock is a director whose films have been screened widely at festivals and on television.

The film industry has a «problem» with transgender actors, with many unable to secure roles despite a «huge pool of talent», according to film director Tom Hooper, whose latest film The Danish Girl — starring Eddie Redmayne as a pioneering recipient of gender - reassignment surgery — receives its world premiere at the Venice film festival.

«Throughbreds» (whose title was singular when it premiered in Sundance's NEXT section in January 2017) may have been overshadowed by «Get Out» at that film festival, but it's no less elegant or lethal, concentrating its satire not on racial mind games (the way Jordan Peele did, seizing the zeitgeist in the process) but a case of blue - blood breeding gone horribly awry.

Inspired by a nightmare, Twixt — filmed in 3 - D, but never widely seen outside film festivals, and now making a belated debut on home video — drifts between the waking and sleeping hours of down - on - his - luck horror novelist Hall Baltimore (Val Kilmer), whose book tour takes him to the small town of Swann Valley and to a poorly attended signing held at a hardware store.

The ever watchable Kathryn Hahn plays Chris, a director with a film about to show at the Venice film festival, who makes a short trip to Marfa with her husband, Sylvere (Griffin Dunne), an academic whose subject is the Holocaust.

Jeremy Lovering («In Fear») If you went to Sundance looking for the next Christopher Nolan or Rupert Wyatt (who both had films premiere at the festival early in their careers), you'd be hard pressed to find a better candidate than Jeremy Lovering, whose feature film debut «In Fear» has been scaring the living shit out of people in the Midnight strand of the festival.

«I look at the lists of which people from which festivals need to watch my movie,» said writer - director Greta Gerwig, whose new film, Lady Bird, will screen at Telluride this year.

Hirokazu Kore - eda — who won the top prize at the Cannes film festival Saturday — is Japan's answer to Ken Loach, a director whose stories about struggling ordinary people never fail to touch.

As these films always are, the story is a slight variation on Jaws (whose John Williams score is paid «homage»), with a deadly aquatic predator surfacing and various reasons (authority ineptitude, nature defiance, a marina festival with an open water polo match) keeping people on or in the water and at risk.

After being one of the early acquisitions at the festival, The Spectacular Now (from director James Ponsoldt, whose film Smashed made my favorites at Sundance last year) became one of the most loved film in Park City this year.

The red carpet was rolled out in a corridor near the hotel's auditorium for a lengthy procession of luminaries from the region — filmmakers and actors whose films were to unspool at MEIFF, many unknown to me; festival jurors, many who were known to me, and so on — as well as... Demi Moore, Freida Pinto and Hilary Swank, amongst others shipped in to gratuitously increase the wattage of Opening Night.

These are not exactly obscure works: The Intruder is the latest offering from French director Claire Denis, whose earlier films (including Beau Travail and Friday Night) have been widely seen at film festivals and in art - house theaters.

It's not just about getting someone to cover the Spanish - language films at the film festival or about having someone on your staff who knows who Kate del Castillo is, but about realizing that there is a growing population that doesn't see itself merely as a target market but as an engaged audience whose opinion deserves to be in the conversation.

Natalie Portman's directorial debut A Tale of Love and Darkness screened as a Special Screening during the Cannes Film Festival, giving her the opportunity to promote this first film at the festival outside the competition unlike her actor - turned - director fellow Ryan Gosling, whose debut feature Lost River screened in last year's Un Certain Regard and received mixed and harsh reviews...

Also, a dark horse candidate has emerged with former commercial director Jon Watts, whose feature film debut Cop Car recently debuted at festivals.

Dean Fleischer - Camp is a writer, director, and animator whose work has screened at film festivals around the world.

One of the favorite standout animal films at the Cannes and Sundance Film Festivals in 2015 was «White God», a Hungarian film centered on the story of a 13 - year old girl whose father sets her dog free into the streets, where he must learn to live among the packs of wild dogs who roam the city, as he tries to find his way back to his best friend.

Other highlights this weekend include Bushwick Basel, in which 11 mainstays of Bushwick's gallery scene will be curating their own show within Starr Space; the Buswhack series of performance and film at the Bushwick Starr; «Sculpture Garden» at the Historic Onderdonk House, a group show of sculpture co-curated by Deborah Brown of Storefront Bushwick and one of our favorite local artists, whose latest series of paintings, «Freewheeling,» opens at the Active Space during the festival.

Rosa Barba (b. 1972 in Agrigento, Italy, based in Berlin), whose work has won many awards and been featured at international exhibitions and festivals, has chosen film as her primary tool of expression.

Danis Goulet is an award - winning filmmaker whose short films have screened at festivals around the world, including the Toronto International Film Festival, Sundance, Aspen Shortsfest, imagineNATIVE and Berlin International Film Festival.

Following the Nunnery Gallery's winning of the Connect Competition to work with Susan Hiller, Visions will take part in the Museums at Night festival at the end of October, premiering a new installation from film duo Webb - Ellis, whose work follows a community pilgrimage inspired by Hiller's Homage to Joseph Beuys series; one of Hiller's new cabinets from the Homage to Joseph Beuys series will also be exhibited (25 - 30 Oct).

Sasha Waters Freyer is a moving image artist trained in photography and film whose work has screened at renowned international film festivals like Rotterdam, Telluride, Tribeca and IMAGES, in museums such as the Pacific Film Archives, the Museum of the Moving Image in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Detroit, on international public and cable television and in microcinemas, basements and country libraries.